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Textile fragment with rosette and trefoil finials
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with blue, yellow, and brown silk
- Dimensions
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17 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.97
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A sixteen-petalled rosette is outlined in dark blue, with a central circle containing a diamond. At the end of each petal is a trefoil finial. The petals were originally filled with yellow embroidery, which has largely deteriorated.
The slanted counted filling stitches are worked in diagonal rows. Brown lines dividing the blue and yellow areas are very deteriorated, but were probably worked in split stitch.
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